Might be open to intepretation. I don't think she's saying she doesn't believe in the existence of people who are communists, so much as she doesn't believe in the idea of the evil, baby-eating communist.
Seriously. Grim not having over a million in subs is damn near criminal. His content is one of the best on the platform in my opinion. Could listen to this man talk about games I've never played forever. And plan to do just that
@@danteshollowedgrounds yeah dude. It's almost a little more special this way. I mean 100+ thousand is still a fn ton of people. I just can't imagine someone finding his channel and not subscribing. So much heart and effort goes into them. He also might be the funniest person that I have ever heard. I mean holy crap. This dude makes me literally laugh out loud throughout his videos.
Sending lots of love, Grim. Thank you for doing what you do. All this effort you put into your videos is truly efficient. The frustration and pain you have gone through in life has culminated into something fantastic. People are here for you and the comfort you give. All I hope for is that you will be paid back in some way. You may be goth, but your soul gleams.
I kind of love the fanfiction vibe the story of this game has. Terminal Reality were so enamored with the setting and characters they created that they integrated them into other stories.
14:46 Hell yeah, Ghost Watch! I love when someone acknowledges it as it's more or less the UK's Blair Witch, as it tricked a lot of the audience into thinking it was real by having recognisable presenters in it like Micheal Parkinson; and everyone trusted Micheal Parkinson being the prime time interviewer he was back in the day!
Grim, I found your channel like a week or two ago, popped up in my recommended. Since then, I’ve been non-stop running through your backlog of videos. I have no fucking clue why you weren’t recommended to me earlier, your style is amazing and it’s exactly in the vein of what I eat the fuck up regularly. You’ve easily become one my favourite RU-vid channels, right beside accursed farms and mandalore. Your style is incredibly unique, you’re genuinely funny, and your reviews are fantastic. Nothing gives me more comfort after a 12 hour shift in the ER than a long, in depth review about a horror game from 15 years ago. Keep doing what your doing, I appreciate your work a lot, and, dare I say, youre goated ?
My high school English teacher is where the story of people throwing up at Blair Witch comes from. She had a former student in the movie and was invited to see it. She got a bad flu right before, still went, and the rest is history
It’s a cool story but probably not where it originated. This was maybe 6/7 years before widespread adoption of social media and the Washington post reported that roughly one person a day in one theatre had people requesting a refund due to feeling unwell, mostly because of motion sickness brought on by the, for the time, innovative shaky cam.
It's promotional silliness that's been common for horror films since Night of the Living Dead and The Exorcist. Theaters often found they sold more tickets if they hyped horror films up by claiming large numbers if the audience were puking passing our ect... In reality super graphic Exploitation films have existed for a very long time that put these mainstream films to shame when it comes to gross outs.
Man, I've been having this genuinely crippling insomnia these past few days and I was trying to find something to relax to, and here comes one of my favorite youtubers in the whole universe with a video. I'll sleep decently this morning, thank you.
I just got out of my misery, I remembered something chubby emu said about b vitamins, which you think would keep you awake right.. but apparently they're essential for sleeping and I'm not going to lie, I grabbed a couple of multivitamins after 2 days of no sleep, and I'm not saying it was good sleep but it actually happened with REM cycles and you know terrible dreams and all that nonsense that you try to avoid it for normally my.. Definitely worth a try take yourself up some energy drinks or something like that, are usually pretty stacked in that regard. Counterintuitive but I mean what are you going to do stay up more? Lol Good luck
This 106 minute video has been out for 18 minutes and I'm calling it amazing already, because Grim made it and everything Grim produces makes me happy.
Another great day to be part of the Goth Gamer Nation(tm). I'm always impressed by your musical compositions, research, editing, humor and delivery Grim.
I never get tired of seeing that clip of the Butcheress from Bloodrayne in Grimbeard's intro and I never get tired of watching a new video about a game I've never heard of or had a reason to care about until he starts talking about it.
"What was- what was happening in the year 2000? I think we all needed some kind of punishment collectively for our... sins... ... oh right." lmfao holy shit king
Holy HELL! A KISS: Psycho Circus reference! Thats amazing! Lol! I just turned 42-years old. My Dad’s favorite band, as well as my lifelong best friend’s entire family (who are essentially family, as well. My dad grew up across the street from his uncle. His Mom used to babysit my Dad & siblings. They grew up together the same way we did. Anyway…) ….ALL of them, their favorite band was KISS. KISS was even my dad’s very first rock concert back in 1976/77 (the year he graduated High School. I just know it was his Senior Year). Well, needless to say, I grew up with KISS, all around me. When Psycho Circus came out..? I fucking LOVED it! I’m a Metal head, & go way heavier than my Dad did. (He actually went the Southern Baptist “Super-Christian” route. It caused me Childhood PTSD via Child Abuse actually. That’s its own story. Anyway…) I listened to that album (somewhat ironically) RELIGIOUSLY, for a couple months. Lol! Also somewhat ironically, it came out my Senior year in High School. That was actually a great couple of years, for music. But, it stayed in my rotation, for a few years. I thought they did a great job of being themselves, while catching up with the times musically & in style. The SONG ‘Psycho Circus’ is pretty fucking heavy, for them. There’s another bunting song, where Gene sings with a kids’ choir. It’s pretty good, believe it or not. That said, if I knew of this game you reference, I completely forgot about it!! Thank you for reminding me/bringing it to my attention. I now MUST play it!! I just recently got my first PC in 25 years (I’m a pro Graphic Designer; & have used Macs since my Junior year of college). I STARTED gaming on computers, in the way of a Commodore 64 when I was 3-years old (circus ‘85). Anyway…sorry I’ve kinda rambled on here. I just HAVE to go find this Psycho Circus game, man. Thank you!! Also…great job, on this video, homie! I’m working n getting myself back into RU-vid. I helped run a pro wrestling podcasts network channel a decade ago. Things happened, & I had to leave it all when the channel fell to the Google Gods. Hopefully we can work together someday, in the future. Currently teaching myself/learning 3D modeling for printing, as well as for animation (among other things…Premiere Pro being one. I mean, I already have the Adobe Creative Cloud. So, why the fuck NOT? Lol! After Effects & others are also on that list of things I’m currently learning.) Alright, I’ll stop rambling on. My bad! But, you’re a trooper, if you’ve made it this far; & I appreciate you! I hope to be a contemporary, of yours, before too long. Good job, brother! Keep it up!
Good vid! Late 90's-early 2000's era "Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture" CD's shaped/reflected a bunch of my music tastes also, at the time and even today. Cool music to look out for at your local thrift store CD rack include: The Crow, Queen of The Damned (especially if you're into nu metal), Spawn, End of Days, and of course the Blair Witch Mixtape. Felt like this fad waned in popularity after the time the Spiderman/Daredevil movies released, which is a pity, but it's always fun coming across more of these tie in albums and seeing what shit the directors thought was cool at the time.
Im new to this channel, but seeing you meet this game where it's at and having a fondness for the Spook House characters is so nice. I'm not familiar with them, but seeing you be excited to see them again makes me invested in learning more. The little I know of the weird Blair Witch games trio has always been fascinating to me, but I felt like any videos I found on them were not as in depth as I hoped for. This video is the remedy for that problem, looking foreward to you covering the other two if you do!!
I'm old and I just don't remember this game, but if you told me it was an indie game that came out in 2023 I'd believe you without question. Feels like there's a whole genre of games that look and feel exactly like this now being made by 2 man devs teams in eastern Europe lol.
Hey just wanted to say thank you for what you do and being my friend on the other side of the screen. Feels like I'm hanging out with an older brother who is smarter and better at games than I am but includes me in the fun. Keep it up, I'll always be rooting for you 🥰
I remember watching The Blair Witch project at my grandma’s house when I was a kid and I was so terrified I couldn’t finish it. As I get older I can see there’s not much substance there but as a kid the fear in their eyes made me scared as shit
Just when I thought I was going to wait for a hella long time after recently finding this channel, bingeing all the reviews so far, and that I'd have nothing new for a while...
One of the comfiest videos of all time, truly, a fall day with rain through a window screen, cold and crisp air from the gloom and doom of a cloudy 2pm
Hey Grim thanks for the new video, Your content got me through a 16 hour flight and I'm eternally grateful. You always put so much care into your videos. Thanks again.
The time vortex explanation is Canon: the reboot Blair Witch film that ignored the second meta movie established that the entity in the woods existed within a time vortex. So the scene where Elisbeth runs into Heather and Co. Is totally consistent. It's very impressive
Love the vid. Can't wait to see part 2 and 3. When the nocturne vid came out I searched for someone talking about these, and now I have it from the best source. Great work.
Every single time I see a new video from Grim I cancel all my plans for the evening (not that I have many) and its just me time with best guy talking about good games in great detail. I cant express enough how much I enjoy your style and writing. Thank you again!
Only knew Nocturn by its cover until you videos but you do such a great job of expressing how and why it makes you see so much potential in it, now I feel the same bittersweet sadness that this is the last we got of it and the beloved characters within. Seeing it freed briefly from its comatose confines, to be lucid for an instant like you remember, forgotten feelings of joy and happiness returning; having to then wake the next day to find it returned to unresponsiveness while you slept, is its own kind of sadness. Maybe it would have been better for everyone if it never lived at all? But you can never really accept that.
Dude your channel is just us, thousands and thousands of us, listening to your essays and watching your video editing and being pretty fucking engrossed.
Grim! I just discovered your channel but I’m obsessed. I’ve watched an episode everyday. Your game essays are so smart and funny, you play the cool shit and seem like a lovely dude. Keep it up!
Much love from down under grim, had a fucked week and finished work 10 min ago. Before the title dropped you reminded me about joy. Needed that today 🖤
Engagement comment to help you out, since I LOVE your videos and have re-watched all of your 1 hour+ videos multiple times. Keep it up, love your humor!
Dude you have no idea how much it makes my day to get a notification about a new Grim video. I have been having a really rough week and the joy I get from your videos really helps make it bearable. Thanks Mr Beard.
Don't let the bastards grind you down. Next week, you may see a dog leaning from the open window of a moving car. The flapping ears of an automated spaniel is truly the way and the light
Lovely video as ever. I remember going to see Blair Witch in the theater with a friend. I was a bit prone to nervous laughter, and burst out laughing right as the final scene hit paydirt. I was told the audience was fairly annoyed, though I did not notice myself.
Leaves me speechless how well this games graphics are made. The atmosphere is one of a kind. The character art, the face textures and pre rendered backgrounds in conjunction with the dynamic lighting are insane, not to mention the sound design. And the discrepancy between her dream and reality regarding the broken church window is also one of my fav parts. I have to say tho, Part II is my fav of the two (totally neglecting part 3 purposely)
Every time Grimbeard uploads I am happy. But instead of rushing to watch the video I always try to get in the mood - read a mystery book, wait for the evening, maybe light a candle or brew a coffee, make myself cozy. I don't know how to describe it, but the direction, the writing, the editing, the humour, the voice, the choice of games, references and clips - all have this warm, rich texture to them, such specific analog Buffy/Twin Peaks/Supernatural/VtMB/X-Files spooky mystery thriller feel. Wasn't surprised in the slightest when Grim mentioned Scooby-Doo, it just fits so well into the whole vibe on this channel.
I'm so glad you finally talked about this game! The Gaming Brit made a video about it a couple years ago and it wasn't very good IMHO, and he didn't talk about the sequels so whatever. If someone asked me "name the best survival horror game from the late 90s/early 00's that isn't Resident Evil or Silent Hill" I'd instantly pick this one. Its only other competitor is arguably Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare, but I don't think it's anywhere near as well realized as Blair Witch: Rustin Parr. It's SO GOOD as a survival horror game. The storytelling is compelling, the characters are great, the investigative element is so well implemented into the Blair Witch lore. Maybe the writing isn't entirely spotless, but they did such a great job that it's so easy to ignore the handful of mistakes. I love this game so much and I've lowkey obsessed over it since back in the day. The real time rendered shadows alone still blow my mind with how good they looked at the time. Games simply didn't render shadows like this back then! You didn't even get to mention how on Hard mode, some of the puzzles are different. Solutions that worked on other modes don't exist, and you're forced to figure out different ways to progress. In fact, you can even make a mistake that softlocks your progress, making you load an older save (such as when you need to get the Sheriff out of the station to speak with the Deputy). This also includes new lines of dialog not present on lower modes.
I was 16 working at my local Regal Cinemas when Blair Witch came out. On opening night, a coworker and I made sure that one of us would be standing in the little vestibule so when people would round the corner to exit the theatre (immediately after the house lights came up)the first thing they would see was either of us facing the corner. We did it a handful of times until a startled woman punched me in the back of the head. She said sorry, and that I had startled her, as she didn’t see me until she was a few feet away. No big deal- the joy of scaring so many people was worth it. Although after that night I would request to work the box office or concession every other time I worked while Blair Witch was playing- I cleaned up A LOT of vomit due to that movie. I mean several piles- every showing.
Glad you brought up the quality of the acting in Blair witch, I feel like it's something people don't really think about or they gloss over or they misremember the cliches, I saw it several years later without any of the sub hyper background hype, knew nothing about it going in, other than it was a big deal at some point.. I just remember sitting there and at a point I started trying to pick it apart, and those performances absolutely made that film something special... Like there's definitely some silliness going on but especially for that era and for that budget, it wasn't a scary movie... And when they start ramping up the last sequences, I'm not sure I had the intended reaction.. but I do remember being absolutely compelled throughout the entire thing and genuinely feeling for how miserable everyone was... I was very curious to find if my memories of this held up because pretty much every time I've heard somebody talk about this it's been in kind of a condescending tone and you kind of sit there and think to yourself, it wouldn't be the first time I picked something up completely different than everybody else, and who knows maybe it really doesn't hold up... Well.. very surprised and kind of reaffirming that you pretty much traced through how I remembered watching it in my head and picked up on on a lot of the things that I remember standing out, and of all the people that I can trust to actually have a good read on that You're one of them... I do remember being incredibly confused when it had so many sequels, I was just kind of like wait why would.. how do you make a sequel to that, this has been enlightening, I genuinely had no idea this was this whole thing beyond the the movie aspect, I just figured that was just you know good marketing independently and hype cycles .. It is a shame though that they didn't seem to keep that same core quality, at least to the parts that I thought were the best, and normally the idea of oh we made the student film but with more violence and sex, that that sounds perfect lol and it certainly would have sounded perfect back then... But for some reason I I just stuck to the core conceit of the documentary miserable bad stuff formula as what Blair which was.. Probably would have given it more of a chance but I do remember stepping in on one of them, and it was... The tonal whiplash of being able to portray characters so realistically and then not being able to do that again kind of almost feel like it set themselves up for for failure in the end, at least in terms of functionality I'm sure they made bank.
So many franchises were absolutely great stand alones pieces of cinema that were needlessly extended way beyond initial premise. I'm the weird guy who loves first Alien movie, good luck convincing anyone that it was masterpiece of horror sci-fi movie with actually quite realistic premise and attention to detail if anyone seen any other Alien movie which is literally opposite of that xD
Grim I love your videos and your sense of humour tickles my funny bone in all the right places. Hope you're enjoying making these videos as much as we enjoy watching them!
Fairly certain @15:18 is the actress Louise Brealey (played Molly in Sherlock). Whether or not she actually was a film journalist or indeed training to be an actress at the time is another question
this is the amount of shark every videogame should jump in its adaptational aspirations; turn a horror movie equivalent of a walking sim (positive) into an x-files-ass best game ~ever~ made RE-clone venture, 10/10 brain move
I've been looking at your channel for the past two weeks, awaiting my next fix. Thank you Papa Grim for this Beardy delicacy, that will assure my sustenance in these next days
The fact Blair Witch fooled so many reasonably intelligent people it was real with (now) laughably bad story, bad acting, and filmmakers with no skill or money shows you how easily manipulated the public is.
47:00 You weren't paying attention. Elspeth mentions she'd like to speak to Rustin Parr right after she meets the sheriff for the first time. Clearly he's still alive and in prison.
it's crazy to see a dude like this call an opinion "the normie opinion" since he has actually lived long enough to see himself become the normie....All the while sadly being unaware of the tragedy or refusing to accept it. how troubling.
@@Ohio.Gozaimasu he just keeps talking about normies throughout the whole second half of the video while not realizing what is a normie has changed and all the things that used to make him unique now make him the same.
@@rena10009 I see. His condescension towards people who don't appreciate the games he likes is very apparent. He even has a whole segment dedicated to it in most of his reviews (bitter recompense). I think people who mention "normies" (even in jest) probably feel unique in some way, which is pretty naive.
holy shit new music in the outro?? so gassed, pure acid hell was my #1 album last year n i put in 20k hours of spotify lmao, thanks for another banger vid grim
It amazes me still that you don’t have more subscribers. You seem to have a healthy amount of patrons through and that’s the true sign of a quality creator.
I always thought making a Blair Witch game crossing over with something like Nocturne was super weird, but honestly I'd kill to see this sort of thing more often. Hellboy fighting the Annabelle doll and stuff would go hard.
I’ve been waiting for you to get around to this and am glad to say your work here lives up to my hopes and expectations for your treatment of the subject matter. Thanks 👍
Absolutely thrilled to watch this, although unfortunately I grew up in the immediate vicinity of Burkittsville, which transforms every Blair-Witch-related product into a comedy. Like, they don't actually have a motel. They never have. Or a town hall. They barely have paved roads.
I remember buying this trilogy on a whim, in a Virgin Megastore on Princes Street in Edinburgh, while on vacation in Scotland in 2001. The first one was better than expected.
